I drove for upwards of eight hours on Friday and Saturday, and ended up listening to a lot of music on this wonderful thing called XM (*gasp*, WNRN sacrilege!). And there were a few things I noticed about modern music in general:

First, music used to involved just one person singing. Then, they moved up to including instruments on the records. Harmonies would be accomplished using random backup singers the recording studio hired by the hour. Now, with the wonders of modern technology and artists like Enya and Imogen Heap, we’ve got songs which layer 10-50 tracks of the same artist on top of one another. Should this seem weird to us? I mean, last time I checked, there was only Enya in existence. Shouldn’t listening to one of her songs cause some sort of red flag to go off in our brains? Generally speaking, people can’t sing five notes at once. Or sing five different things at once, for that matter.

And what’s up with the purposefully misused grammatical forms and tenses in rap songs? I’ll let songs like “Crank Dat” slide, since I suppose it’s part of the grammar of the subculture that’s developed around rap. But “The Way I Are?” No one even says that. Oh, so she likes me “just the way I are.” That’s so wonderful. I’m flattered. I love to be a incorrect, second singular version of a verb.

Speaking of music, you guys should all come to CHS’s One Act musical, “How to Eat Like a Child” on Wednesday. Interaction problems aside, it’s a fun play. And you get to see me play a dog - a role at which I’ve become something of an expert, performing as a dog no less than five times during my high school career.

Oh, and the second installment of “Adventures of an NBC Intern” is coming soon - I’m changing it up a bit, since it involves real people.

Hah, in your last post, I misread it as “How to Eat a Child”. Totally missed the “Like”

Haha - well some of the scenes are almost as disturbing. Example: me trying to sing notes written for a seven-year-old boy.